PAM. /G d ee 
misc. 


A Week of Prayer for 
Flisstons Abroad 


Pee Ot OA Drill 29351905 





OR the last two years, at about this sea- 
son, Christian peoplein the United States 
and Canada have united in a week of spe- 
cial Prayer for Missions abroad. The 
custom has proved so helpful that the Annual 
Conference of the Foreign Missions Boards in 
the United States and Canada, meeting in New 
York in January, decided to repeat the request 
for these united intercessions during the week 
beginning April 16 and closing April 23, 1905. 

The period selected is that which commem- 
orates the Redeeming Death and Glorious 
Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. It will 
be apparent to every one how appropriate it is 
to use these days for offering prayersand gifts, 
that the message of love revealed in the Incar- 
nation of our Lord, and the message of life 
revealed in His Resurrection, may be fully pro- 
claimed throughout the world for which He died. 

For the more helpful observance of the week 
it is suggested that the topics included in the 
Common Daily Prayer be used in connection 
with the subject given for each day in the 
Prayer Cycle on pages 2 and 3, and it is hoped 
that this spirit of prayer may be carried into 
daily or midweek church services, and be given 
expression at parlor or neighborhood meetings 
in private houses on one or more evenings, at 
family prayers and in daily private devotions, | 


Prayer Cyele 
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The Evangelization of the World 


Total population of the World, estimated, 1,500,000,000. Nom- 


inal Christians, 500,000,000, Non-Christians, 1,000,000,000. 
Native Christians—Protestant adherents in’ non-Christian 
countries and tribes, 4,514,592. Protestant Missionaries, 18,164. 
Native workers, 78,350. Students in Christian schools, 1,051,466. 


For Missionaries; for the Native 
Churches; for all inquirersand catechu- 
mens; for greater faith in God, for the 
establishment everywhere of Christian 
homes and the Christian Church, and the 
preaching of the Gospel to every creature. 


For Reinforcements — native and 
foreign—men and women of prayer and 
purpose, constrained by the love of Christ, 
of good judgment and humility, who can- 
not but speak the things they have seen 
and heard. 


The Empires of Eastern Asia—Japan, 
China, Korea, Thibetand Siam. For the 
cessation of war and the decay of distrust; 
for friendship; for continued progress; 
for openness of mind and heart on the 
part of Confucianist and Buddhist toward 
the Gospel. 


Central and Western Asia—India, 
Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey, Arabia. For 
religious liberty; for the elevation of 


woman; for freedom from famine; for 


the conversion of the Hindu and the 
Mohammedans. 


Prayer Cyele 
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The Continent of Africa.—For the 
extinction of the slave trade and the 
liquor traffic; for peace; for justice in 
the Congo Free State; for the evangel- 
ization of the Soudan, and all unreached 
tribes. 


The Countries at Our Door—Mexico 
and Central and South America. For the 
spread of purity of doctrine and of life; 
for the unreached Indians; for political 
righteousness and stability. 


The Islands of the Sea—the Philip- 
pines, Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, the 
South Seas, Madagascar. For the purifi- 
cation of American influence from all vice 
and irreligion; for confidence and service, 
Ore lUsticewanaepeacc10r the, end-of 
slavery and impurity, and the triumph of 
Christianity. ; 


The Church at Home.—For ministers 
and people; for forgiveness for lethargy 
and indifference; for more prayer and 
more faith in God’s desire to hear and 
answer prayer; for more love and obedi- 
ence; that every member of the body of * 
Christ may have the mind of Christ re- 
garding foreign missions and, abounding 
in the grace of giving, may yield prompt 
obedience to the command of our risen 
Lord. 


Gntted Braver for Misstons 
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Praise 


Fortheunspeakable gift of God’s love; forthe 
share He gives us in His work; for those He 
has delivered from the power of darkness and 
translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. 


Common Dailp Praper 


For an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. 


For a realization of the need of the non- 
Christian world; its helplessness, its poverty, 
its materialism, lust and superstition ; the inade- 
quacy of its religions; its spiritual hopelessness. 

For a truer conception of the mission of the 
Church; for more consecration and sacrifice; 
for a full surrender to the leadership of Christ; 
and that the Lord of the harvest will thrust 
forth laborers into His harvest. 

For the missionaries, that they may be kept 
in health of body and mind; that they may 
have a continual sense of Christ’s presence, 
and may have greater access to the hearts of 
the people. 

For the native Church, that it may grow in 
faith and fruitfulness, in love and service; for 
more native workers. 

For the elevation of woman. 

For religious liberty and peace. 

For the evangelization of the whole world 
and the establishment of the Kingdom of Christ. 


“*That they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus 
Christ whom Thou hast sent.”’ 


